Objectcost — Object storage costs

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Checked 2026-09-12

Your monthly workload

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Total data stored

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Data downloaded / month

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PUT, COPY, LIST

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GET, HEAD

Rates per GB · Requests per million

Object storage pricing and estimated monthly totals. Select a provider to view assumptions and cost breakdown.
/ GB / mo/ GB/ 1M/ 1M/ GBSource
Standard $0.00695per GB / month $0.013× storage included FreeFree — None
Standard $0.00727$7.99 / mo minimum FreeFair use policy FreeFree — 90 days
Standard $0.015per GB / month FreeNo egress fees $4.5$0.36 — None
Infrequent $0.01per GB / month FreeNo egress fees $9$0.9 $0.01 30 days
Standard $0.01863$5.00 / mo minimum $0.009311.10 TB included FreeFree — None
Standard $0.018$18.00 / mo minimum $0.011.00 TB included FreeFree — None
Standard $0.02142per GB / month $0.08382Volume pricing $5$0.4 — None
Infrequent $0.01164per GB / month $0.08382Volume pricing $10$1 $0.00931 30 days
Standard $0.01863per GB / month $0.11176Volume pricing $5$0.4 — None
Infrequent $0.00931per GB / month $0.11176Volume pricing $10$1 $0.00931 30 days
Infrequent $0.00373per GB / month $0.11176Volume pricing $20$10 $0.01863 90 days
Infrequent $0.00112per GB / month $0.11176Volume pricing $50$50 $0.04657 365 days

Showing 12 plans from 7 providers↘ Lowest estimate for the selected plans and workload

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Estimates assume minimum retention and object sizes are met. Retrieval equals internet egress. Taxes, early deletion, replication and CDN fees are excluded.

BEHIND THE NUMBERS

A fairer storage comparison.

Public list prices checked on 2026-09-12. This is a manually maintained snapshot, not a live billing quote.

The calculation

Monthly estimate = storage + internet egress + write requests + read requests + retrieval. Bundle fees and included usage are applied first. AWS and Google volume tiers are included.

Units and regions

Inputs use decimal TB (1 TB = 1,000 GB). We convert bytes to each provider’s billing units, including GiB (1,073,741,824 bytes). Table storage, egress and retrieval rates are normalized to decimal GB and rounded for display; calculations use unrounded rates. Rates represent the regions listed in provider details. Google uses Iowa, flat namespace. Internet delivery is to North America.

Free allowances

The switch applies recurring account allowances for Cloudflare, Backblaze, AWS and Google. It assumes you are eligible and have not used them elsewhere. New-customer credits and time-limited trials are excluded. Paid-plan bundles and Backblaze’s 3× egress inclusion always apply. Cloudflare rounds billable storage to GB and operations to whole millions.

Retention, retrieval and fair use

We assume objects meet each plan’s minimum retention and billable size. Early deletion or small objects can increase your bill. For cooler tiers, retrieved data is assumed to equal internet egress; internal reads and repeated reads may add costs. Wasabi’s estimate is excluded from ranking when egress exceeds active storage because its fair-use policy may limit that workload.

What is excluded

Taxes, negotiated discounts, replication, versioning, lifecycle transitions, optional features, CDN charges and migration. A low estimate does not compare durability, availability, latency, compliance or feature parity. Google’s XML interoperability is only partial S3 compatibility.

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